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Transaction Management in the R* Distributed Database Management System. ACM Transactions on Database Systems, 11(4), 1986, 378-396.New DBMS Architectures Mike Stonebraker, Daniel J. Abadi, Adam Batkin, Xuedong Chen, Mitch Cherniack, Miguel Ferreira, Edmond Lau, Amerson Lin, Sam Madden, Elizabeth O'Neil, Pat O'Neil, Alex Rasin, Nga Tran, Stan Zdonik. C-store: A Column-oriented DBMS. SIGMOD, 2005.Cristian Diaconu, Craig Freedman, Erik Ismert, Per-Ake Larson, Pravin Mittal, Ryan Stonecipher, Nitin Verma, Mike Zwilling. Hekaton: SQL Server's Memory-optimized OLTP Engine. SIGMOD, 2013.Stavros Harizopoulos, Daniel J. Abadi, Samuel Madden, Michael Stonebraker. OLTP Through the Looking Glass, and What We Found There. SIGMOD, 2008.Large-Scale Dataflow Engines Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat. MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters. OSDI, 2004.Yuan Yu, Michael Isard, Dennis Fetterly, Mihai Budiu. 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